“Like a stone tossed into a flock of birds, talk startled swiftly into flight whenever the new postmaster was mentioned.” — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“Long ago, I believed that, given a choice, peple would turn to good as they would turn to light. I believed that… — Sarah Blake Long ago Copy Share Image
“And one day I got it. I lifted my head from the child's chest I was listening to and realized, with a… — Sarah Blake Children Copy Share Image
“She imagined she could pull Time like taffy, stretching it longer and longer between her hands until the finest point had been… — Sarah Blake Ww-ii Copy Share Image
“It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the… — Sarah Blake Eating lunch Copy Share Image
“A woman will be loved...in proportion as she makes those around her happy...” — Sarah Blake Happy Copy Share Image
“It gets you thinking about all the parts in a story we never see" --he cleared his throat-- "the parts around the… — Sarah Blake Book Copy Share Image
“And then Frankie understood that the boy was going on alone. Perhaps there had been only one sponsor in another country for… — Sarah Blake Children Copy Share Image
“ONE DAY SOMEONE you saw every day was there and the next he was not. This was the only way Frankie had… — Sarah Blake Every day Copy Share Image
“Some stories don't get told. Some stories you hold on to. To stand and watch and hold it in your arms was… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“Bombers flew above the wattles, over an England filled with songs of linnets and thrush. There were things being broken we had… — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“It began, as it often does, with a woman putting her ducks in a row.” — Sarah Blake Copy Share Image
“every story - love or war - is a story about looking left when we should have been looking right.” — Sarah Blake Love Copy Share Image
“Sand was dribbling out of the bag of her attention, faster and faster.” — Sarah Blake Distraction Copy Share Image
“Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard… — Sarah Blake Conversation Copy Share Image
